nweibley
Member
Just throwing this out there as a potential idea:
I don't know how many FIOS users we have on FG, and I don't know how many of them are Vuze users, but I'm curious if there'd be any interest in this.
Basically, apply the Vuze "friend boost" feature to a core of well connected FIOS users to distribute certian FG.com content. Since we have atypically fast and stable upstream throughput, if we were to peer together and seed to one-another with let's say 1/3rd your rated upstream bandwidth, I believe we could have a fairly significant positive impact on the availability and swarm speed of torrents from release. By preferentially peering to one-another and staying inside the core verizon network to form an early base of seeds I would suspect we would at least have some positive impact.
With 20 20Mbit/5Mbit FIOS users allocating a 1.67Mbit a piece to friend boosting one another, that would allow the network of "friends" to pull really quick d/ls of the source which they could seed at 3.3+ Mbit to the rest of the swarm. Consider that a pool of 20 5Mbit FIOS upstreams would contribute 100Mbit and that's not a shabby bit of bandwidth to help the process along. Of course with more FIOS users or 20Mbit symmetric lines it would be even better, but you get the gist.
Thoughts? Interest? Concerns? I'd love to give it a try if there are other FIOS users out there willing to take part.
I don't know how many FIOS users we have on FG, and I don't know how many of them are Vuze users, but I'm curious if there'd be any interest in this.
Basically, apply the Vuze "friend boost" feature to a core of well connected FIOS users to distribute certian FG.com content. Since we have atypically fast and stable upstream throughput, if we were to peer together and seed to one-another with let's say 1/3rd your rated upstream bandwidth, I believe we could have a fairly significant positive impact on the availability and swarm speed of torrents from release. By preferentially peering to one-another and staying inside the core verizon network to form an early base of seeds I would suspect we would at least have some positive impact.
With 20 20Mbit/5Mbit FIOS users allocating a 1.67Mbit a piece to friend boosting one another, that would allow the network of "friends" to pull really quick d/ls of the source which they could seed at 3.3+ Mbit to the rest of the swarm. Consider that a pool of 20 5Mbit FIOS upstreams would contribute 100Mbit and that's not a shabby bit of bandwidth to help the process along. Of course with more FIOS users or 20Mbit symmetric lines it would be even better, but you get the gist.
Thoughts? Interest? Concerns? I'd love to give it a try if there are other FIOS users out there willing to take part.